All posts tagged "Parenting"

Prevalence of Childhood and Adult Obesity in the United States, 2011-2012

After the Recall: Dangerous Products Remain in Homes

Beyond Bullying: How Hostile School Climate Perpetuates the School-to-Prison Pipeline for LGBT Youth

Teaching and Learning: Achieving Education for All

Supporting and Caring for Our Gender-Expansive Youth

Early Reading Proficiency in the United States

Ensuring Access to Mentoring Programs for LGBTQ Youth

The State of America’s Children – 2014

A longitudinal twin study of physical aggression during early childhood: evidence for a developmentally dynamic genome

House Passes Farm Bill Cutting SNAP $8.6 Billion Over 10 Years

  The House of Representatives Wednesday passed a new farm bill, which includes cuts the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), often referred...

Pretending to ‘Care About Kids’ But Really Caring About Pot

“Our children” are routinely trotted out (sometimes with sincerity) as public relations tools to sell various agendas politicians and interest groups push....

Hospitalizations Due to Firearm Injuries in Children and Adolescents

The Mentoring Effect: Young People’s Perspectives on the Outcomes and Availability of Mentoring

Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

A Grieving Mother’s Quest to End Bullying

  Following her teen son’s suicide, Tina Long leads a charge to change how schools respond to bullying incidents. Photo courtesy Tina...

Low-Income Families and the Cost of Child Care: State Child Care Subsidies, Out-of-Pocket Expenses and the Cliff Effect

‘Those Kinds of Kids’: Meeting the Needs of LGBTQ Youth of Color Charged with Status Offenses

Jay is a 16-year-old black lesbian. [Editor’s Note: “Jay” is based on a composite of real stories of LGBTQ youth garnered during...

Children As Givers: Teaching Kids and Teens to be Philanthropic

April 20, 2010. People around the world were glued to their TV’s as hundreds of millions of gallons of oil gushed into...

More Kids Lived with Long-Term Unemployed Parent in ’13 than Pre-Recession

Graphic from a 2013 Urban Institute report on children of unemployed parents. More children were living with at least one long-term unemployed parent during...